While I was writing an extended blog post on the topic “Ultimate guide to prepare a fresher’s résumé”, I needed few résumés for reference. And I needed fresher résumé to be precise. I turned to Google like I do for everything in life.
I searched for a while using the query “sample freshers resume“. I wasn’t happy with the quality of resumes I found through this query. A simple idea struck me.
I performed a Google search with query “Freshers resume filetype:doc“. The results were amazing. I found thousands of quality freshers resumes.
Google has a special filter called filetype, using which you could search only for documents with a particular filetype. In this case, documents with extension “.doc”, i.e., word documents only.
I wondered if this filetype trick worked with experienced resumes too. I modified my search and typed “Java developer resume filetype:doc“. The results were marvelous again. But now, there was a problem. I needed only the resumes from India.
I could do two things:
- Modify the Search query to “Java developer resume india filetype:doc“
- Select the option “pages from India” in www.google.co.in
Both of them work like magic. Voila, this is the trick. If you are in urgent need a sample resume in your niche, type your experience keywords followed by filetype:doc . And if you need resume format specific to a particular country, go to the localized Google website of that country and select the radio button to filter the results only from that country.
This trick can save you a lot of time and energy. Especially when you are in a hurry of creating a resume for that dream job opportunity that knocks your inbox doors unexpectedly.
About the Author: Sridhar Jammalamadaka is the Editor of Interview Mantra. He's a typically non-typical Software Engineer from Pune, India. He likes entrepreneurship, web technologies and Micro Controller programming. He enjoys playing cricket and piano (but rarely does these activities). Through this website, he wishes to gather a large community of aspiring engineers, entrepreneurs and professionals from all parts of the globe. You can connect with him on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/sridhar.j 
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